Various people recently wrote of footers and other matters of consequence: > > of mine subscribes to another listserver, on which *all* the messages > > received are posted with a footer giving instructions on how to unsubscribe > > from the list at any time. Do you think this would be a good - or possible I'm no longer in the business of running all the university's lists (whew!) and I don't have much involvement in overall list service any longer, but I understand that the existing older lists will move to a new server that has such a capability as Camille suggests. I myself agree with Matt, below, that I don't much like them -- footers like that always make me feel as if I'm at a party at which the host is forever, pointedly, showing me where the door is. There's probably another eight months before we would have to switch, and I imagine we'll have plenty of time to discuss all this here. Feel free to contribute. > We used to have such a trailer attatched to all messages. To be entirely > honest (sorry, Stephen), it was ugly, and after a while, it began to make > some of us nervous. I would twitch a lot while reading mail and I didn't > sleep well on weeknights. Will had to get corrective lenses. I don't > remember when it finally disappeared, but I recall the electronic > equivalent of a rainbow stretching across the list for a week or so. I just unsubscribed and resubscribed every day, but then I took medication for it. (No offense intended, Stephen!) > The better way to handle would-be unsubscribers is for Tim to hire a > couple of guys to rough people up a little when they discard their list > membership reference card. I had been hoping to handle it myself, but I failed out of tough-guy school, and when my kneecaps are better I will try again.... ObSalinger: Last night I had a perfectly rational dream about visiting him and introducing him to soul food. But now after a day of bleary overcast skies and a walk in the rain, I don't recall why the dream made any sense at all. But I feel compelled to mention it for those among us who think we don't talk about Salinger or his works enough here. Cheers! --tim